Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-07

here and there, from this and that part of
society, and from this and that part Of the
earth, there comes up a thrilling solo of
love, or a warble of worship, or sweet
duet Of patience, they are drowned out by
discord that shakes the earth.
Paul says: ''The whole creation 'groan-
eth, " and while the nightengale, and the
woodlsrk, and the. canary, and the plover
sometimes sing so sweetly that their notes
have been written out in musical notation,
and it is fonnd that the cuckoo sings in
the key of d, and that the cormorant is a
basso in the winged choir, yet the sports
mans gun aud the autumnal blast often
leaves them
RUPFLED AND BLEEDING,
or dead in meadow or forest Paul was
right, for the groan in nature browns ont
the prima- dornA Of the sky.
Tartini, the great musical composer,
dreamed one night that he made con-
tract with Satan, the latter 10 be ever in
the composers service. But one night he
handed to Satan violin, on which Diabo-
lus played such sweet music that the
composer was awakened blythe emotion
and tried TO reproduce the sounds, and
therefrom was written Tartini's most IA.
nous piece, entitled the Devils Sonata"
dream ingenious bnt faulty, for all mel
Ody descends from heaven. and only dis
cords ascend from hell. All hatred, feuds,
controversies, backbitings and reyenges
are the devils sonata, are diabolical fuge,
are demoniac phantssy, are grand march
of doom, are allegro of perdition.
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are out Of tune to our frail ear, how much
more to ears angelic and deitic? 1t takes
skilled artist fully to appreciate disagree
ment Of sound. Many have no capacity to
detect defect Of musical execution, and,
though there were in one har as many Of
fenses against harmony ~ could crowd in
between the lower of the bass and the
higher G Of the soprano, il would give
them no discomfort, while on the forehead
of the educated artist beads Of perspiration
would stand out as a result of the harrow
ing dissonance. While an amateur was
performing on piano, and had Just struck
the wrong chord, John Sebastian Bach,
the immortal composer, entered the room,
and the amateur rose in embarrassment
and Bach rushed past the host. who
stepped forward to greet him, and before
the keyboard had stopped vibrating put
his adroit hand upon the keys and changed
the painful inharmony into glorious ca-
dence. Then Bach turned and gave salu
tation to the host who had invited him.
But the worst of all dscOrds is moral
discord, If society and the world are
painfully discordant to imperfect man,
what must they be to a perfect God. Peo-
pie try to define what sin is. 1t seems to
me that siu is getting
OUT OF HARMONY WITH COD,
disagreement with His holiness, with His
purity, with His love with His commands,
our will cla> hing with His will, the flute
dashing against the infinite, the irail
against the puiSsant, the created against
the Creator. if thousand musicians,
with flute, and cOrnet a-piston, and
trumpet, aud violincello and hautbols,
and trombone, and all the wind and
stringed instruments that ever gathered
in Dusseldorf Jubilee should resolve that
they wOuld play out of tune, and put con
cord to the rack, and make the place wild
with shrieking and grating, and rasping
sounds, they could not make such a pan
demonium as that which RACES III II sinful
soul when God listens to the play of its
thoughts, passions and emotions -dlscoId.
| lifelong disc0rd, maddening diScOrd. The
world pays more for dscoTd than 1t does
for consonance. High prices have been
paid for music. One man gave two hnn-
dred and twenty-five dollars TO hear the
Swedish songstress in New York, and an
other six hundred and twenty-five dollars
TO hear her in BustOn, and another six
hundred and fifty dollars to hear her in
Providence. Fabulous prices have been
paid for sweet sounds, but far more has
been paid for discord Tue Crimean war
cost one billion seven hundred million dol.
lars, and our American civil war over nine
and haIf billion dollars, and the war
debts of professed Christian nations are
about fifteen billion dollars. The world
pays for this red ticket which admits it to
the saturnalia OF broken bones, and death
agonies, and destroyed cities, ami ploushed
graves, and crushed hearts, any amount Of
money Satan asks. DiscOrd! Discord
But have to tell you that the song that
the morning stars sang together, at the
laying OF
THE WORLDS CORN ERsTONE,
is TO be resumed again. Mczart's great
est overture was composed one night when
he was several times overppwered with
sleep, and artists say they can tell the
places in the music where he was falling
asleep, and the places where he awakened.
So the overture of the morning stars, sp0-
ken Of in my text, has been asleep, hut it
will awaken and be more grandly rendered
by the evening stars of the world's exist
ence than hy the morning stars and the
vespers will he swCeter than the mathis
The work OF all good men and women, and
of all good churches, and all reform asso.
Citations is to bring the race back 10 the
original harmony. The rebellious heart
TO be attuned social life TO he attuned,
commercial life 10 be attuned, information
ality 10 be attuned, hemispheres to be at.
tuned. But by what force and in what
way?
In olden time the choristers had Ia tun
ing fork with two prongs, and they
would strike it on the hack Ct pew or
music rack, and put it to the ear,
and then start the tune, and all the other
voices would Join. In modern orchestra
the leader has complete instrument,
rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and
all the other performers turn the keys Of
their instruments to make them CORES
pond, and sound the bow over the string,
and listen, and sound ont over again, nm
till all the keys are screwed to concert
pitch, and the discords melt into one great
symphony, and the curtain hoists, and
the baton taps, and audiences are raptured
with Schumann's Paradise and the Peri, ="
or Rnssini's ''Stabat Mater" or Baeh's
"Magnifcan" in d, or GOunod's 'Redemp'
ton "
Now. our worlds can never be attuned
by an imperfect instrument Even A
Cremona would not do. Heaven has or.
dained the only instrument, and 1t Is made
ont of the wood Of the cross, aui the
voices that accompany it are Imported
voices cantatTioeG Os the first Christmas
night, when heaven
sERESADED TdE EARTH
with: "Glory to God in the highest and
on earth peace, good will 10 men" Lest
we start too Gar off and get lost in generali-
/ ties, we had better begin With ourselves,
get our hearts and life in harmony with